OLLI at Auburn University

Week 5 – Personal Health IT – draft: incomplete

Today’s TED Talks

Meet e-Patient Dave. When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online — and found a medical treatment that even his own doctors didn’t know. It saved his life. Now he calls on all patients to talk with one another, know their own health data, and make health care better one e-Patient at a time.

Healthcare should be a team sport. When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care — by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.

Today’s Discussion

Tom will lead the discussion of the TED Talks, Health IT, and personal health records.

Also, Tom will introduce the new weblog PHR4us,a beginners’ guide and reference for personal health records (PHR). The weblog is designed to inform users about health information technology and to guide them in the use of online and mobile device resources for creating, managing, and sharing more accurate, complete, and accessible personal health information, thereby enabling them to engage more fully in their own health care with improved healthcare and health outcomes.

More..

So you want to make health care work where you work. OK, you’ve heard the insider’s ideas and seen their big plans – physicians, providers and politicians. But what if the innovative solutions aren’t coming from inside where the status quo prevails? What if the disruptive new ideas for health care are coming from outside just as they do in almost every other industry?

Your medical chart: it’s hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it. Goetz is the executive editor of Wired and author of “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine.”